It’s probably too little too late in the age of Claude… C# grew all those features over time. It had to leave syntax to support old patterns to preserve backwards compatibility. Thus, the syntax has grown a bit noisy…
No, I’m not. I’m explicitly differentiating between those two perspectives and which corporations care about. “Blame” doesn’t exist in most corporate vocabularies.
It’s possible. Effects allow more aspects of computation to be represented/generalized, but as the author has noted concrete implementations have already been tried in some cases. Rust’s ownership, Java’s exceptions,…
Because it’s their job to fix it. If they don’t, the axe falls again. Humans often think in terms of deontological ethics. Corporations operate in terms of consequentialist ethics, and the only consequence that matters…
I feel the author’s pain. LLMs take over right as we’re finally figuring out the unifying models and algorithms for programming languages. Some time back I went on a tour of the fort at Dry Tortugas. Largest brick…
I buy that markets are like a traveling salesman problem. “Impossible” in the general case, but good enough could algorithms exist. Where’s the economist formulation of that algorithm? What are the policy implications…
Rules are only “good” or “bad” in the context of the alternatives. What’s the alternative?
Way above my pay grade. I’m not an expert in game theory, economics, warfare, or nuclear proliferation. :)
Game theory here is applied to two fundamental market theorems. It’s a way to analyze the validity of those assumptions, rather than to build a new model. Empirical evidence to the contrary is expected given mutually…
Are securities regulations so lax that pump ‘n dump schemes on a global scale get IPO’d? Are conmen so sophisticated that their plans take decades to mature and require sending rockets to space? Either or both of those…
If this happened it would make Elon emperor of the known universe. Can’t imagine the level of influence this would buy. It also seems impossible. What are people seeing that I don’t?
Not to mention if “borders” is part of the continuity definition the US is younger than my parents.
That’s not the premise people are building on though. Any particular model almost doesn’t matter at this point. Harnesses are built around them. OpenAI and Anthropic are basically interchangeable in an open-source…
My version of this is the “N+1” principle. Build for one more foreseeable use case than you currently have. The domain model will click in when you need to generalize a solution, and you’ll gain the ability to see your…
In the case of concrete there’s also a time component. Once you mix the cement and aggregate you have a few hours before it begins to set. The cement itself is already typically trucked in (a relatively small amount of…
Anecdotally, my take on this is that biggest value lever is strategy and alignment, not implementation. The typical company is dozens of little vectors pointed in different directions, and they cancel each other out.…
Imagine you initialized 10,000 NPM repos identically simultaneously. Then had 100 different teams each take of 100 those repos for 10 different projects, and let each repo run for 1,000 commits. How distinct would each…
So, depending on someone else’s shared library, rather than my own shared library, is the difference between a microservice and not a microservice?
FWIW, (I have one Clojure project I inherited at work that my team maintains) I love this direction.
One addendum / clarification: It may also be that "space" and "time" are emergent properties, much like an "apple" is "just" a description of a particular conglomeration of molecules. If we get past Planck scales it may…
Any given model has less fidelity than reality. An atlas map of the US has less detail than the actual terrain. The Planck constants represent the maximal fidelity possible with the standard model of physics. We can’t…
The fact you can’t pretend _is the point_. A blanket policy of “no and never” that works well for other addictions or compulsions can’t be applied to food. :) As a counter-factual, imagine if every time you wanted to…
Yes, but we had that problem before when somebody would farm out coding assignments to a friend. I couldn’t say yet how it’s impacted the coding assignment’s effectiveness as a filter yet. We still do get crap code just…
We still do a coding assignment, but a significant chunk of the technical interview is dedicated to a walkthrough of the code. Thus far, that’s been able to detect those who relied solely on AI. …If you used AI and can…
You’re right, I suggested two different dimensions of complexity there as a lens into how much complexity a function contains. But I think the principle holds for either dimension. I don’t think you need only 20 test…
It’s probably too little too late in the age of Claude… C# grew all those features over time. It had to leave syntax to support old patterns to preserve backwards compatibility. Thus, the syntax has grown a bit noisy…
No, I’m not. I’m explicitly differentiating between those two perspectives and which corporations care about. “Blame” doesn’t exist in most corporate vocabularies.
It’s possible. Effects allow more aspects of computation to be represented/generalized, but as the author has noted concrete implementations have already been tried in some cases. Rust’s ownership, Java’s exceptions,…
Because it’s their job to fix it. If they don’t, the axe falls again. Humans often think in terms of deontological ethics. Corporations operate in terms of consequentialist ethics, and the only consequence that matters…
I feel the author’s pain. LLMs take over right as we’re finally figuring out the unifying models and algorithms for programming languages. Some time back I went on a tour of the fort at Dry Tortugas. Largest brick…
I buy that markets are like a traveling salesman problem. “Impossible” in the general case, but good enough could algorithms exist. Where’s the economist formulation of that algorithm? What are the policy implications…
Rules are only “good” or “bad” in the context of the alternatives. What’s the alternative?
Way above my pay grade. I’m not an expert in game theory, economics, warfare, or nuclear proliferation. :)
Game theory here is applied to two fundamental market theorems. It’s a way to analyze the validity of those assumptions, rather than to build a new model. Empirical evidence to the contrary is expected given mutually…
Are securities regulations so lax that pump ‘n dump schemes on a global scale get IPO’d? Are conmen so sophisticated that their plans take decades to mature and require sending rockets to space? Either or both of those…
If this happened it would make Elon emperor of the known universe. Can’t imagine the level of influence this would buy. It also seems impossible. What are people seeing that I don’t?
Not to mention if “borders” is part of the continuity definition the US is younger than my parents.
That’s not the premise people are building on though. Any particular model almost doesn’t matter at this point. Harnesses are built around them. OpenAI and Anthropic are basically interchangeable in an open-source…
My version of this is the “N+1” principle. Build for one more foreseeable use case than you currently have. The domain model will click in when you need to generalize a solution, and you’ll gain the ability to see your…
In the case of concrete there’s also a time component. Once you mix the cement and aggregate you have a few hours before it begins to set. The cement itself is already typically trucked in (a relatively small amount of…
Anecdotally, my take on this is that biggest value lever is strategy and alignment, not implementation. The typical company is dozens of little vectors pointed in different directions, and they cancel each other out.…
Imagine you initialized 10,000 NPM repos identically simultaneously. Then had 100 different teams each take of 100 those repos for 10 different projects, and let each repo run for 1,000 commits. How distinct would each…
So, depending on someone else’s shared library, rather than my own shared library, is the difference between a microservice and not a microservice?
FWIW, (I have one Clojure project I inherited at work that my team maintains) I love this direction.
One addendum / clarification: It may also be that "space" and "time" are emergent properties, much like an "apple" is "just" a description of a particular conglomeration of molecules. If we get past Planck scales it may…
Any given model has less fidelity than reality. An atlas map of the US has less detail than the actual terrain. The Planck constants represent the maximal fidelity possible with the standard model of physics. We can’t…
The fact you can’t pretend _is the point_. A blanket policy of “no and never” that works well for other addictions or compulsions can’t be applied to food. :) As a counter-factual, imagine if every time you wanted to…
Yes, but we had that problem before when somebody would farm out coding assignments to a friend. I couldn’t say yet how it’s impacted the coding assignment’s effectiveness as a filter yet. We still do get crap code just…
We still do a coding assignment, but a significant chunk of the technical interview is dedicated to a walkthrough of the code. Thus far, that’s been able to detect those who relied solely on AI. …If you used AI and can…
You’re right, I suggested two different dimensions of complexity there as a lens into how much complexity a function contains. But I think the principle holds for either dimension. I don’t think you need only 20 test…